"Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace."
-Ludwig von Mises
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"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.“
-Ludwig von Mises
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"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism."
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"To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war."
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"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace."
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"Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking."
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"Peace and not war is the father of all things."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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